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Diversity: Chile’s Wine Buzz Word

Diversity: Chile’s Wine Buzz Word

  Imagine this. Twelve dramatically different wine valleys packed into a 1,000 mile north to south mid-section of the country, no more than 100 miles or so wide at any point. Vineyards sit in the piedmont with jagged, snowcapped peaks cutting into the sky. Others...

Three New (Awesome) Chilean White Wines

Three New (Awesome) Chilean White Wines

  Chile is really carving a niche out for itself with its white wines. Every year, they just get better and better with Sauvignon Blanc blazing the path. Long gone is the style of the over-oaked, caramel-laden Chardonnay. That is so California. So 1990s. Chilean...

Life After Gluten

Life After Gluten

  Three years ago I said adiós to gluten. At the beginning, it felt like a wake that lasted weeks and months. Good-bye pizza, pasta, sandwiches, pancakes. Don’t even talk about baguette or brioche. The evidence was all too clear. I felt bad, no, make that awful,...

Eating Healthy While Traveling

Eating Healthy While Traveling

    This year I have been a bit of a road warrior. In fact, when I departed on a recent business trip to the US, I calculated that I had actually been home (in Santiago, Chile) about 4.5 months the entire year. Not a bad thing. I totally thrive off of being...

Peru is Coming to Texas!

Peru is Coming to Texas!

    After a very long weekend (5 days!) for Chilean Independence holidays, I am getting ready to head north for my third tour in Texas at Central Market’s cooking school in early October. Since many of you reside in the Lone Star state, I wanted to share the...

World Travels, Part I: China

World Travels, Part I: China

    In July, my husband and I took off on a 33-day round-the-world trip spanning three continents. One of the big motives of the journey was to go to Asia. I had not yet been, and it has been high on the list for a long time. After much debate as to where,...

The Last Passage

The Last Passage

    If somebody had told me that six weeks ago my life would have been turned upside down, I wouldn’t have believed them. It was not a trip abroad, or even within Chile. No, no, no. It was a journey in my own home, my own being, deep into my soul. Vika was...

Seven Peruvian Super Foods You Should Know

Seven Peruvian Super Foods You Should Know

    CamuCamu: This edible fruit grows in a small, bush-like tree in the Peruvian flooded rainforest and is harvested by canoe. The fruit is a bright reddish-purple color, which imparts an attractive pink tint when juiced. Locals love CamuCamu for its mood...

Sun & Wine Salutations This Winter in Chile

Sun & Wine Salutations This Winter in Chile

    Love yoga? Love wine? Love Nature? We do. If you find it hard to get back into your fitness and healthy eating routine post holidays, we have some inspiration for you. January may be cold and dreary, but it's summer in Chile! Break out of the winter...

My Top Picks for Chilean Benchmark Cabs

My Top Picks for Chilean Benchmark Cabs

    Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon is, quite frankly, a rock star grape here. This late-ripening grape was brought from France in the mid-1800s, and quickly adapted to the Mediterranean climate, flourishing in vineyards in the Central Valley like the Maipo,...

The Mother Sea

The Mother Sea

  With thousands of miles of coastline and the chilly Humboldt current from Antarctica, Chile is one of the most blessed countries in the world with a plethora of species of fish, shellfish, crustaceans, and sea vegetables. There are literally dozens upon dozens...

How Can I Help You?

How Can I Help You?

  What makes a stay in a luxury hotel, or any kind of visit for that matter, be the best? What do guests most desire and how can a hotel respond? The answer, I believe, lies in the details of personalized service. For affluent passengers, with routines that never...

Lizcaskey.com Revamped

Lizcaskey.com Revamped

Sorry I have been somewhat desparecida as of late. Between numerous work trips in South America, we’ve been hunkering down to finish our brand new website. After months of designing, writing, editing, and programming; we are super psyched to debut the revamped...

2011: Another Year Devoured

2011: Another Year Devoured

December. Again. This year, the months passed as if they were weeks, but it has been awesome. Busy. Productive. Fun. I´m always in favor of New Year’s resolutions and defining my yearly goals to achieve, but before setting off on that exercise, I take a moment to...

Six Things NOT to do with wine

Six Things NOT to do with wine

Forget it in the freezer: I know that many a sommelier will cringe to hear this, but it’s the truth, and come on, we all do this in a pinch. Stick a bubbly or white wine in the freezer for 15-30 minutes to get it ice cold. It works like a charm, but only if you don’t...

Turn off the TV & Start Living

Turn off the TV & Start Living

I have a confession to make. We don’t have a TV. Yes, it is by choice. (You can gasp now.) After the initial shock, most people grapple with the idea of how I can survive, let alone function without a TV. It’s not hard, I swear. In fact, getting rid of the boob tube...

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